NATIONAL
DEFENSE
ISSUE
QUEENS B LUE
VALIANTINES
TO OUR
ARMED FORCES
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Vol. ^
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
February 13, 1942
National Defense Week Great Suceess
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Dean Announees Honor List And Grades
Two Stndents
Have All ‘A’
Term Records
With two students, Ruth Kilgo and
Annette Mclver, leading the school
with all A records, Dean Godard s
office has just announced the stand
ing for the rest of the student, body.
The members of the Dean’s List ac
cording to their class rank are as
follows:
Seniors: Prerequisite being two A’s
are Nancy Claire Allen, Inez Full-
bright, Mary Marshall Jones, Annette
Mclver, Lalla Marshall, Harriette
Scoggin, and Ida Mae Walkup.
Juniors: the reprequisite of which
is two A’s, are Louise Blue, Louise
Brumley, Margaret Cochrane, Mar
garet Hawkins, Helen Hendley, Ruth
Kilgo, Betty McClintock, Marguerite
Mason, Elsie Moseley, Marion Miller,
and Terry Mosteller.
Sophomores: prerequisite of three
A’s are Marguerite Gillespie, Idrienne
Levy, and Mildred Pearson.
Freshmen: who are required to
make four A’s are Kathleen Carter,
Anne Hatcher, Elizabeth Howard,
Marie Sitton, Willie Frances Efird,
and Viriginia Nell Smith.
The total number of grades given
the whole student body is ^061. Of
these, 263 are A’s, 590 are B’s, 648
are C’s, 333 are D’s, 96 are F’s, 95 are
E’s, and 36 are Incompletes.
The following is a chart showing
the class grades according to per
centage. It is expected that the
Senior and Junior classes lead the
school, as they are a more select
group.
A B C D F E I
% % %
Seniors 18 45 25.5 9 1 5 1
Juniors 17 34 33 10 1 3 2
Sophomores 9 26 33 23 ^
Freshmen.... 10 21 33 10 10 5
Specials 24 34 15 ai 3 3 0
Many Classes
Discuss War In
College Life
■^^^“Tt^^^^vriterirTommv Scott, and gathered around lier are, left to right, Adelaide Henry,
Nanev Isenhour, Alice Payne, Anne Hatcher, and Kitty Manor. These girls are members of the journalism
class who visited The Charlotte News Tuesday.;
DEAD LINES AND ...
Printer's Ink Fascinates Journalism Class
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—By ADELAIDE HENRY
“Two thirty’s the deadline,” explained Miss Brown as
she opened the door leading into an office full of pound
ing typewriters, men in all degrees of undress, smoke, and
enough scrap paper to settle any question in our minds
as to whether there would soon be a paper shortage,
“That’s when things really begin to hum!”
All of us silently wondered what one’s life would be
worth in that particular room if things did begin to
hum for we already had our serious doubts as to whether
we’d leave in one piece. There’s a somewhat threaten
ing atmosphere created by ten ringing telephones, men
dashing madly about with fragments of paper in one hand
and pencil in the other, and typewriters buzzing like mad.
The room we had just entered—we being the Journalism
class of Miss Evelyn Baty—was the composing room of
The Charlctte News. Our hostess was Miss Annie Mae
Brown. Each one, in turn, was intently doing something
that faintly resembled making an eight-thirty class, only
in their terms it was “making the deadline.” The man
who reviews books was reading two of the latest novels
Beyond him was the girl who, among other things,
files comic strips for a week in advance. (We had an
almost irrepressible urge to inquire as to the outcome
of Li’l Abner.) Another man writes headlines for all
stories so furiously that the entire staff expects his desk
to go up in flames at any given moment. In the center of the
confusion sat the City Editor himself and he didn’t look
or act even remotely like Edward G. Robinson.
If the composing roW was a hodge-podge, the next
was a minor hurricane. Here the linotype machines—
there must have been hundreds—were noisily and rapidly
making plates, which make the printing on The Charlotte
News, if technicalities are herein important. A very nice
gentleman explained the whole process to us and, I dare
say, we’d all recognize a linotype machine if we ever saw
one again.
Luckily, we happened along in time to see the last
cast put on that gigantic press, saw the fellow push the
button and—in the shortest imaginable time the indica
tor showed that fifty “Charlotte Newses” were ready for
circulation.
A delightful touch and one that won us to the “cause”
was the fact that Tom Fesperman took individual pic
tures of us (which will, of course, insure an increase
of seven more copies sold on the day they are printed)
and asked us our opinion about newspaper business,
current events and such. The photographer took a group
picture, too. Indeed, they really did treat us like Queens.
Notwithstanding everything, however, there’s some
thing very appealing about the smell of printer’s ink!
Featuring forms and discussions on
every course from science to religion
National Defense Week, came to a
highly successful conclusion Saturday.
From room to room ranged discus
sions on everything from the effect
Edmond Burk’s speech on American
Living to the solving of aeronautical
mathematical problems. History
classes talked of peace plans after
the war, while psychology classes
discussed how to keep up the moral
of the nation now.
The faculty committee under whose
supervision Defense Week came into
effect was headed by Miss Harriet
Tynes. She was assisted by Dr. Ethel
Abernathy, Miss Alma Edwards, Dr.
Dorisse Howe, Mrs. Joe McEwen.
As a result, the Queens College
Defense Council met last night and
organized a campus defense program.
Plans for blackouts and fire drills
were under discussions as well as the
plan for knitting, entertaining soldiers,
and holding social economic and
political panels on problems of nat
ional interest.
The departments and some of their
topics were as follows: English and
Secretarial Administration — English
in connection with historic develop
ments; French and Spanish—the im
portance of the language now, in
treaties, international discussions and
trade.
Chemistry and Physics—Training
for defense work in mathematics, phy
sical measuremens, analytical chem
istry; German — the plight of
German culture; Home Economics
—the imporance of nutrition in nat
ional defense, and the influence of
war upon woman’s dress; Mathe
matics—Mali. Education for Service;
Philosophy—Comparison of life under
totalitarian and democratic govern
ments ; Psychology—'I'he causes of
war and moral.
Eve Curie Changes Lectwre
Date; Will Appear Aprd 20
Noted Woman Touring
Europe’s Battle Fronts.
Eve Curie, France’s most
woman, will not appear here on Feb
ruary 16 as previously schedule , u
instead will lecture on April 20. This
announcement was made by Dr. uc
Delano, head of the Concert and Lec
ture Series, at the Madrigalist Con
cert Tuesday night.
The reason given for the lecture can
cellation, according to W. C. i.ec, ler
manager, is that at the present time
Mademoiselle Curie has not been able
to come to the United States. or
the past several months she has been
touring the European battlefields and
has been reported in Russia, Persia,
and Africa. Mademoiselle Curie has
been working actively with Genera
de Gaulles’ Free French forces.
Mademoiselle Curie has written a
number of newspaper articles dealing
with the Euroiicnn situation from he
first-hand observation.
Her lecture will be ou the topic
■■wemeu In Science''. Mademoiselle
Curie'll parents were Hie
Pierre iincl Marie Curie, discoverers o
All Religions
To Be Topies of
Chapel Series
Alpha Kappa Gamma Will
Sponsor Isabel de Palencia
A new series of Chapel programs
/will be begun Friday, February 13,
according to the announcement made
student chapel Wednesday by
Former Minister Will
Discuss Woman’s Future
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eve curie
Radium. She, however, is famous in
her own right, and is noted as a lec
turer.
Of special interest to Queens girls
might be the fact that in addition to
being a brilliant lecturer. Made
moiselle Curie is considered one of the
ten best dressed women in this world.
Gordon Sweet, chairman of the chapel
program committee.
The programs are to be conducted
by leaders of various religious groups.
The first of these is Rabbi William
Greenberg who will speak today. Sec
ond in the series is to be a Catholic
program given Friday, February 20.
Guest speaker at the chapel service
Tuesday was Dr. James A. Jones,
minister of the Myers Park Presbyte
rian church. Highlights of Dr. Jones’
talk came when he said: “If you come
to the campus of Queens College day
after day, treating indifferently and
apesthetically your opportunities and
privileges to learn, you are commit
ting treason as grave as if you had
been standing guard at Pearl Harbor
on the morning of December 7, and
had decide to leave your post to go
to a nearby salon for a drink, thereby
giving the enemy ample opportunity
Isabel de Palencia, former minister
from Spain to Sweden, and author of
widely read autobiography, I
her
Must Have Liberty, will speak on
Mareh S, at Queens College under
to attack.”
the auspices of Alpha Kappa Gamma,
leadership fraternity. Writer of note
on Spanish costumes and customs,
Senora de Palencia has chosen as the
subject of her lecture Women: Their
Hopes and Their Future.
Since the fall of the Spanish Re
public to the Axis supported Franco
regime, Senora de Palencia and her
family have resided in Mexico. In
the few years she has been in this
hemisphere, Isabel de Palencia has
completed writing in English two
children’s books, Ht. Anlhony’s Ply
and Juan: Son of a Fisherman, both
illustrated by her artist husband Don
Ceferino de Palencia; her best .sell
ing autobiography of last Fall, I
Must Have Liberty; translations of
several of her plays which are now
under consideration for production;
and a novel which her publishers ex-
ISABEL DE PALENCIA
pcct to issue in the Spring of 19 i2.
She has lectured in Spain, Paris,
London, and many times in the
United States. Her first trip here
was made some years ago at the
inviation of the Institute of Inter
national Education.
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